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TERM LIMITS for all! No more career politicians! No more ’special’ benefits like premium healthcare insurance and read more retirement programs.
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Last update: March 1, 2010 - 11:03 AM Monday morning, Gov. Tim Pawlenty appeared unworried and unpressured by the coming afternoon vote to override his veto of General Assistance Medical Care spending.
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One of the memes going around Washington is that Obama’s biggest political problem is that he doesn’t scare anybody .
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One runway is causing a whole lot of problems at one of the nation’s most delay-plagued airports.
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Al Gore now says the Himalayan glaciers story was just ‘one small error’. In fact, it was every green’s trump card.
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Bill Hardiman says he is running for the congressional seat being vacated by fellow Republican Vernon Ehlers .
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President Barack Obama hasn’t kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendinitis in his left knee and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded Sunday after the 48-year-old’s first medical checkup as commander in chief.
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Make no mistake: If President Barack Obama actually wanted to be the post-partisan agent of Washington change, his health-care summit would have looked a whole lot different than the meeting he recently held across the street from the White House.
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His Republican vote is news in the town where the partisan divide is colder and harder than a steel rod buried in Arctic ice.
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After years of a stagnant economy, furloughs are nothing new to private-sector workers - including newspaper reporters! - and even many state and local employees.
Posted by news on February 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Stock futures are pointing to a higher open Tuesday as hopes grow the European Union will provide Greece with some support for its mounting debt burden.
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As Senate Democrats look to pass a jobs bill before Presidents Day, experts say the debate is an opportunity to see if calls for bipartisanship will be answered.
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“I am not an ideologue,” protested Barack Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last month.
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Toyota will recall 437,000 hybrid cars globally to fix faulty braking systems on four models, including the Prius, adding to almost 8 million vehicles the company is repairing for separate defects.
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Posted by news on February 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The president’s proposed a package of small business tax breaks and new lending that he hopes will appeal to Democrats and Republicans.
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It’s the Year of the Tiger, but Chinese fortune tellers say it’ll be a rough patch for the world’s most famous one: disgraced golfer Tiger Woods.
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An effort is under way to have an upstate New York post office named after a 19-year-old Marine recently killed in action in Afghanistan.
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Posted by news on February 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Congressman Bob Brady says “There will never be another Jack Murtha,” adding “He went out on top of his game.” The Pennsylvania Democrat died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., where he was admitted on Jan.
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Posted by news on February 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Feb. 9–During his lengthy career in Congress, U.S. Rep. John Murtha earned the respect of his colleagues and even his political rivals.
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Some New Hampshire business owners who are against a pending tax are holding a news conference in favor of a bill that would repeal the action.
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Two Santa Cruz men were shot and killed in their lower Ocean Street apartment while hanging out with friends early Saturday, according to Santa Cruz police.
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Among the many minor calamities of getting older is losing touch with one’s native tongue.
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Vice President Joe Biden met with Iraqi leaders Saturday amid controversy over the legitimacy of hundreds of electoral candidates in the upcoming general election.
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Posted by news on January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
President Barack Obama Saturday endorsed a bipartisan plan to name a special task force charged with coming up with a plan to curb the spiraling budget deficit, though the idea has lots of opposition from both his allies and rivals on Capitol Hill.
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Posted by news on January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
As Gov. Rick Perry spoke to a Capitol anti-abortion rally, a supporter of Republican opponent Debra Medina tried to steal some of the show.
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Posted by news on January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
HEADING FOR SHOWDOWN: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at an election rally in Colombo.
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As much as 450,000 gallons of crude oil may have spilled in a southeast Texas port when two vessels collided Saturday morning, but it’s unclear whether that much actually leaked from the damaged tank, a U.S. Coast Guard official said.
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Posted by news on January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The U.S. Marines marked the end of nearly seven years in Iraq on Saturday by handing the Army their command of Anbar province, once one of the war’s fiercest battlefields but now a centerpiece of U.S.-Iraqi cooperation.
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Yet Blair authorised the September 2002 dossier, saying: “What I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt is that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons, that he continues in his efforts to develop nuclear weapons and that he has been able to extend the range of his ballistic missile programme.” Blair …
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President Barack Obama phoned Senate allies Saturday as two key senators predicted that embattled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be confirmed for a second term.
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Posted by news on January 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
President Barack Obama laid blame Saturday on an al-Qaida affiliate for a Christmas Day terrorist plot that has led to a review of how intelligence agencies failed to prevent the botched bombing aboard a Detroit-bound airliner.
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The Christmas Day attack on a jetliner over Detroit, combined with technological improvements to protect people’s sense of modesty, could lead to dramatically wider use of full-body scanners that can see through travelers’ clothing.
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Barack Obama claims the suspect who tried to blow up a transatlantic flight on Christmas Day was a member of Al-Qaeda. The president said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was a student in the UK, was trained and equipped by an al Qaeda affiliate while in Yemen.
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An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens.
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Robert Morgenthau has been cast in many roles during his decades in office. The inspiration for the district attorney on TV’s “Law&Order.” A taker-on of mobsters, misbehaving celebrities and corrupt CEOs.
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Posted by news on January 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Football fans and “American Idol” devotees can breathe a sigh of relief. Fox and Time Warner Cable have reached a deal in principle that will keep the network on the cable provider after Fox threatened to pull the plug over a fee dispute.
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Posted by news on January 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Philadelphia’s first black district attorney will take the oath of office on Monday.
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Richard Preston Howe, 63, died, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009. He was born in Detroit, Maine on Oct.
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Last year may go down as the best year yet for female CEOs of large companies, but those corporate chiefs want to make it clear their success has nothing to do with chromosomes.
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In his weekly address, President Barack Obama discussed his solemn responsibility to protect the nation and the steps the administration has taken to that end.
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Posted by news on December 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
While many hailed U.S. President Barack Obama’s attention to the high unemployment rate in the country, some experts argued that the jobs bill he had proposed lacks the strength needed to spark significant employment growth.
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Mexico’s foreign minister met with Cuban President Raul Castro for three hours Friday, the latest sign her country and the island have repaired recently chilly relations.
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Posted by news on December 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Pakistan is planning to deport five Americans held on terror links to the United States after they were grilled by a special FBI team in the capital Islamabad, local media reported Saturday.
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Posted by news on December 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The House broke Friday from a divisive debate on banking laws to applaud a military unit visiting the Capitol.
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Hoyer: I’m ‘Disappointed’ In John McCain’s Flip Flop On Climate Change > > Posted By mesodude 4 hours, 22 minutes ago in Political News > During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen.
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Posted by news on December 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last year’s Wall Street failures that plunged the nation deep into recession.
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The House of Representatives approved the biggest changes in financial regulation since the Great Depression on Friday, marking a win for the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.
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Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating their $7 billion fishery.
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Posted by news on December 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The Obama administration’s pay czar is limiting the cash compensation for executives at companies that received the largest taxpayer bailouts to $500,000. The 25th through the 100th top earners at Citigroup, GMAC, American International Group and General Motors also must take more than half their compensation in stock, and at least half must be …
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Posted by news on December 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The top U.N. official in Afghanistan says he will step down early next year after a rocky two-year tenure marked by a fraud-marred national election and a deadly Taliban attack on U.N. employees.
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